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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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cheating on the onion soup is buying canned or powder. the other way is to stand by a stove after cutting up fresh onions and take maybe 45 minutes cooking them to that brown fully carmelized color.

im more inclined to cheat because I love saving time and energy, but I hate eating the shit they put in mostly onion soup mix because Randall beans seem better than canned.

from scratch requires extra time and effort. but the sin of convenience is the questionable ingredients that make it possible.

maybe I can just cheat on beans but do the onion soup part of it right, but jeez to canned tomatoes and even tomato juice suck. its like whats my shit to legit ratio here? go neutral with Randall beans, legit with Onion, and until my garden gets going shit tomato sauce/juice.

why not just full on crap until i actually get my heirloom tomatoes going, then do all three parts Right.

the Chilli Meat is easy but FANTASTIC, so I hate to skimp on the waaay too overlooked beans

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